RECYCLING

Wood recycling

is a rational and important choice:

 

1. Contributes to the protection of the forest resources
2. Reduces the volumes sent to landfill
3. Determines a lower environmental impact
4. Reduces greenhouse gas emissions

 

Alternatives to recycling

Incineration

• If it is not preceded by an accurate sorting it can represent a potential risk of pollution.
• Determines a fast return of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
• It is a non-repeatable process because the material is eliminated

Landfills

• They occupy the land in an almost permanent manner and, at the local level, they cause serious inconveniences (odors, noise, traffic);
• They represent a potential source of pollution, significantly contributing to the increase of the so-called "Greenhouse Effect".

Quality control of incoming wood

1. Ecological Panel Companies: the first company in the world that uses 100\% recycled wood on the whole range of chipboard panels.

2. The raw material is carefully selected and only wood that has certain health features is accepted:

• Pallets
• Shavings
• Old furniture
• Packaging in general
• Processing residues from the first processing of virgin wood and of wood agglomerates
• Construction site waste for construction and demolition
• Fruit crates

3. Incoming wood

The wood waste entering the plants, both of national and foreign origin, undergo quality checks to ensure compliance with the chemical-physical requirements established by the strictest regulations in force.

Eco-technology

• A certified quality production process that allows a positive environmental impact.
• The transformation technologies of Mauro Saviola Group are capable of processing all the collected wood scrap (packaging, processing waste, broken furniture, construction material, etc.).

Industrial process - Material cleaning

• Quality checks;
• Cleaning: separates the wood from any other foreign material: from the sand of the construction site to the nails that end up in the box of metals intended for the foundry...
• The so-called "traps": they allow us to separate everything that is not wood, without using chemical solvents or reagents of any kind;
• Tank to sink inert materials;
• Magnets to attract iron;
• Centrifuges that use gravity to separate materials;
• Materials other than wood are intended for recycling;
• All the waste from the production process (iron, plastic, paper, glass, present in the incoming wood) are sent to the companies that recycle them.
• Over 20.000 tons of iron is annually disposed.

Self-Powering

The non-exploitable wood derived from the separation and cleaning of the material is burned to power the processes.

But only wood that cannot be recycled - and only that - is reused as biomass for self-powering.

This produces electrical and thermal power to be used in the production cycle, so as to drastically reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and close the Recycling-Reuse circle. The result is a pure material, perfectly suited to be processed in order to become a panel. The emissions deriving from combustion are controlled by electrostatic filters able to collect dust and organic substances with a very high efficiency: the companies of the Group have organized an analytical control plan that provides continuous monitoring available to the authorities in charge.

Help us save the trees

Saviola is the first company in the world to have made the ecological chipboard panel using only Post-consumer 100\% recycled wood.

Proposing the most innovative range of decorations and finishes, papers and laminates, perfectly coordinated edges and surfaces available on the market today.